June 6th became a day of one of the most audacious attack by the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist state on the Democratic rights and political activists and began
The Hathras Conspiracy case accused Atikur Rehman who was arrested in October 2020 along with journalist Siddique Kappan and two others on their way to Hathras to meet the family members of a gang.
A bench of Justices Attau Rahman Masoodi and Renu Agarwal granted bail while taking into account the period Rehman has spent in jail and that Kappan and Alam have already been granted bail.
According to the journalist's lawyer, no arguments on the merits of the case were heard on Monday. The court will hear the petition again on September 23.
On Tuesday evening, 79-year-old academic Roop Rekha Verma and another person who prefers not to be identified submitted papers to stand surety for the Malayalam journalist.